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Sea Monkeys - A Memory Book (Paperback): Kris Saknussemm

Sea Monkeys - A Memory Book (Paperback)

Kris Saknussemm

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* Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone. These are just a few of the luminous characters and conjurings Kris Saknussemm delivers in his kaleidoscopic Sea Monkeys--the story of his growing up in the counterculture San Francisco Bay Area and central California in the 1960s.
Known for his genre-bending works Zanesville and Private Midnight, Saknussemm now gives us a highly original take on the nonfiction memoir, in which he shatters the stained glass windows of his father's church and mixes the pieces with ghost cartoons, the Cronkite contradictions of Civil Rights demonstrations, and ads for laxatives during a strange hiatus in American sanity when Sly Stone and Perry Como could both be in the Top 10. Honest, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Sea Monkeys is the no-holds-barred tale of one of our most exciting contemporary authors' own coming of age, and the perfect follow-up to Saknussemm's Zanesville, which Booklist hailed as one of the most creative, edgy, and entertaining novels spawned in a decade.

General

Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2012
First published: November 2012
Authors: Kris Saknussemm
Dimensions: 218 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-448-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Biography > Literary
LSN: 1-59376-448-0
Barcode: 9781593764487

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